Get sms address from intent data

Question

I need to retrieve a phone number from different type of intents. Cases are intents as:

Intent smsIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
smsIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
smsIntent.putExtra("address","phoneNumber");         
smsIntent.putExtra("sms_body","message");
startActivity(smsIntent);

or:

Intent sms_intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse("smsto:xxxxxxxxxx"); 
sms_intent.putExtra("sms_body", "This is my message!"); 
startActivity(sms_intent);

When I start the new activity, I get my bundle extras with:

Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
    if (extras != null) {
        //some code
    }

Specifically, for the first case where the intent explicitly bind an extra with key "address" I do:

extra_phoneNumber = extras.getString("address");

But I'm having some trouble trying to retrieve the value after smsto: for the second intent case.

I already tried to iterate through the bundle extras with:

for (String key : bundle.keySet()) {
Object value = bundle.get(key);
Log.d(TAG, String.format("%s %s (%s)", key,  
    value.toString(), value.getClass().getName()));

}

but if the extras are empty this give me a NPE.

I couldn't find anything because of the lack of documentation from Google itself so any answer would be really helpful! Thanks in advance.

I suggest you check how does 2nd case intent look inside via debugger. There are other fields than extras where information can be stored. See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#getData%28%29 maybe this will help — mhenryk, Jul 30 '15 at 12:39
Perfect! .getDataString() worked! I honestly tried to call getData() before but I was calling it on the wrong object.. Please, write this as answer so that I can mark it correct in order to help others with the same problem! — Lampione, Jul 30 '15 at 13:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 30 '15 at 13:23

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I suggest you check how does 2nd case intent look inside via debugger. There are other fields than extras where information can be stored. Please check Intent.getData() or the Intent.getDataString()

answered Jul 30 '15 at 13:23

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 30 '15 at 14:04

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You can try this code :

SmsMessage[] msgs = null;
msgs = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];
for (int i = 0; i < msgs.length; i++) {
          msgs[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[]) pdus[i]);
          msg_from = msgs[i].getOriginatingAddress();
          String msgBody = msgs[i].getMessageBody();
          Log.d("resulty", "Message From: " + msg_from + " and it says: " + msgBody);          
}

edited Jul 30 '15 at 14:04

LittleBobbyTables - Au Revoir

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answered Jul 30 '15 at 14:01

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Get sms address from intent data

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